ethnographic present

mickey mouse monopoly: who

Chyng Feng Su and Miguel Picker

mickey mouse monopoly: when

Late 1990s - 2001

mickey mouse monopoly: where

United States

why

To critique the cultural imperialism

mickey mouse monopoly: what

constructs racism, beauty standards, impacts play ritual

I am a Shaman: who

Dwight Conquergood, Paja Thao, and Xa Thao

I am a Shaman: when

early 1980s

I am a Shaman: where

Hmong refugee communities like Minnesota and Wisconsin, United States

I am a Shaman: why

Provide a culturally relative understanding of Shamanism as a cultural performance and resistance

I am a Shaman: what

Shamanism as a performance, identity, and struggle. also

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: who

Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: when

1980s

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: where

Merced, California

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: why

highlight cultural misunderstanding around healing and medicine

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: what

conflicting medical opinions surrounding illness, causing tragedy and misunderstanding for Hmong parents and Western doctors.

talks about the journey from the Laos concentration camp to the Thailand border to escape to the US. There were active shootings, land mines, disease, starvation, and many people drowned crossing a river. They were forced to leave behind the sick and elderly

The Split Horn: who

Taggart Seigel

The Split Horn: when

1990s

The Split Horn: where

Hmong refugee communities like Minnesota and Wisconsin, United States

The Split Horn: why

highlight cultural change and growth with migration

The Split Horn: what

explores generational change, conflict, and growth within communities and in a Hmong family with a shaman father

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: who

seth holmes

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: what

examine the suffering of Triqui migrant farmworkers and their relationship with the labor systems they endured.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: when

2004-2005

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: where

U.S.-Mexico border, tanaka farm in skagit valley, oaxaca mexico

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: why

To understand how structural violence physically affects the bodies of migrants.

Land of Open Graves: who

Jason De León

Land of Open Graves: what

How the border policies and the dangerous environment harm migrants

Land of Open Graves: when

2009-2014

Land of Open Graves: where

The Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Mexico.

Land of Open Graves: why

To expose how the government used prevention through deterrence to kill and erase lives on the border.

Pretty Modern: who

Alexander Edmonds

Pretty Modern: what

Studies how cosmetic surgery in Brazil reframes “physical defects” as medical problems.

Pretty Modern: when

Early–mid 2000s

Pretty Modern: where

Rio de Janeiro

Pretty Modern: why

To show how beauty becomes medicalized and tied to inequality and ideas of being “modern.”

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: who

Fernanda Ugalde

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: what

sculptures of people found in equador can be categorized into 3 genderd groups, there is a nonbianary group with female bodies wearing masculine clothing and vice versa.

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: when

2020

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: where

Ecuador

What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy: why

To examine ancient Ecuadorian gender fluidity and the intentions behind historic figurines